Can I Use My Phone at a Dinner Party?
Slate's new digital-manners show tackles smartphone etiquette.
Posted Tuesday, May 3, 2011, at 1:44 PM
In this week's episode of Manners for the Digital Age, Farhad Manjoo and Emily Yoffe debate the question, "Is it rude to whip out the smartphone during a dinner party?"
You can listen using the player above or download the episode here. You can also subscribe to the Digital Manners podcast via iTunes or by using our RSS feed.
For more information about this new series, read our introductory article.
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Farhad Manjoo is Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society. You can email him at farhad.manjoo@slate.com and follow him on Twitter.
Emily Yoffe is a regular Slate contributor. She writes the Dear Prudence and Human Guinea Pig columns. You can send Dear Prudence questions for publication to prudence@slate.com. (Questions may be edited.) Subscribe to Emily Yoffe's Facebook page.